Bottle-filling apparatus



(No Model.)

W. H. BRYANT. BOTTLE} FILLING APPARATUS.

N0. 467,150. Patented Jan. 19, 1892.

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\VILLIAM II. BRYANT, OF BROOKLYN, NEIV YORK.

BOTTLE-FILLING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 467,150, dated January19, 1892.

Application filed June 16, 1891.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. BRYANT, residing in Brooklyn, county ofKings, and

State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement inBottle-Filling Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

My improvement refers to apparatus for filling bottles or small canswith milk or other fluid, and is intended to produce an apparatus inwhich a series of bottles can be filled at one time.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view of my apparatus complete. Fig. 2 isa view of one of the faucets, and Fig. 3 is a detail view of part of thelatter.

The milk or other liquid with which the bottles are to be filled iscontained in a tank A, supported on standards 13, at such aheight thatthe bottles O can stand upright beneath the tank. On the lower ends ofthe standards or supports B are small wheels or rollers 79, which enablethe tank to be readily moved over the bottles as the latter are filled.

On the under side of the tank, near one edge, are a series of faucets D,through which the fluid passes from the tank into the bottles beneath.As is shown in Fig. 2, these faucets are provided with a screw d, bywhich they screw into a bushing o. The lining of the tank comes directlyover the flange 0 of the bushing, so that a tight joint is formed in thebottom of the tank, so that they can be easily removed for any purpose,if desired. The handles d of the faucets project outward and upward andterminate in a locking device 6, by which they are attached to areciprocating rod m, extending along in front of the tank and connectedat each end to the levers n n, pivoted at one end to the tank. One ofthe levers is prolonged to form a handle at, by which the levers can bemoved back and forth and the reciprocating rod operated. The attachmentof the handles of the faucets to the reciprocating rod is such that whenthe rod is moved in one direction all the faucets are open, allowing thefiuid to flow into the several bottles simultaneously until the latterare filled. W'hen the rod is moved in the opposite direction, thefaucets are closed and the flow of liquid immediately stopped. Thefaucet-handle is attached to the reciprocat- Serial No. 396,505. (Nomodel.)

which engages with a stud f on the under side of the bolt. The tensionof the spring holds the bolt in place in the hole 6 but when it isdesired to disconnect the faucet from the reciprocating rod the bolt isdrawn back by the head a and out of the hole 6 and is thus freed fromthe rod m.

In order to hold the bolt back when it is disengaged from the rod m, sothat it will not interfere with the movement of the latter, I form aslot f with a cross-slot f in the under side of the head d in positionto 2LGCOI111110-' date the stud f. When the bolt is drawn back, the head6 is turned slightly, so as to bring the stud in the cross-slot f whenthe bolt will be retained in this position, and can be released so as tobe thrown out by the spring by turning the head e, so as to bring thestud out of the slot f As will thus be seen, any one or more of thefaucets may be at once disconnected from the reciprocating rod by merelypulling back the bolt and be held from engagement, so that by noaccident can the handle of the faucet come in contact with the rod onand be opened by the latter.

In my improvement all the faucets can be operated together, or by aslight change any faucet can be separated from the operating device;and, if desired, all the faucets can be disconnected, so as to beoperated singly. Furthermore, the entire operating device by which thefaucets are opened or closed is out side of the tank containing theliquid, for which reason the contents of the tank are not contaminatedor interfered with in any way. The bushing 0 may be omitted and thefaucet screwed directly into or on the wood of the tank, if desired.

I claim- 1. In a bottle-filling apparatus, in combination, a tank A, rodm, and faucets D, having detachable handles (Z, provided with the boltsfrom engagement with the same by the stud 0, held in engagement with therod by the fin theslotsff substantially as described. springsubstantially as described.

In abottle-filling apparatusfln combinw \VM. ll. BRYANT. 5 tion, a tankA, rod on, faucets D, having the Witnesses:

handles (Z, and bolts 6, actuated by the spring g, J. E. GREEK, adaptedto engage with the rod 111 and be held FRED L. KEMPER.

